Censorship of Art

The history of censorship casts its mind many years back. In the past, a lot of contents used to be censored due to non-acceptance. Nowadays, in spite of the freedom of speech and religion, free press etc., censorship seems still to remain and in my opinion it does a great harm on art curtailing artists' potential, among others.

To begin with, being an artist means expressing oneself and putting thoughts or/and products of imagination on paper or painting it on canvas etc. It is immposible to be a creative and budding artist and struggling with certain limitations at the same time. If a law requires that any violent or pornographic scenes should be censored, then an artist's potential is curtailed. Therefore, any existing rules laid down in order to censor offensive scenes ought to be abolished, for the sake of a good and real art.

However, the problem is that artists are often believed to overstep the boundaries of good taste, showing nudity, violence or offending politicians and religious figures.

In addition,such contents are said to be inappropriate for youngsters or harmful for society. One of the worth mentioning examples is the Michaelangelo's piece of art „The last Judgement” which is probably the most significant moments in the history of censorship.This famed fresco presenting unclothed human souls was deemed unholy and immoral by many believers of Catholic faith even by the pope of that time.

All in all , in my opinion, although art should be perceived as limitless area of expressing one's imagination and passing messages on to spectators, it is still curtailed by certain rules in order to fit in with the society. Thus, one can pose a question: Is art like this a real art? It can be of course denied. Because if art is censored, such art does not give us a true message then, so it can be called